1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Munda Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Not Available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available